I’ll say never

Ugh. What an irritating saying. It’s almost as bad as “I told you so” or “It is what it is.” (Although, I use that one a lot, when I just want the conversation to stop)

Thing is, I think you absolutely can say “never” — and to a lot of things. In fact, I’ll share mine with you.

I will never own a minivan. Never. I hate them — with a passion that rivals my love of cheese. I find them cumbersome, awkward, usually not driven properly, and hideous. OK, so the whole aesthetics thing is not important, but still. It always seems as if a Xanax-popping soccer mom is behind the wheel, drifting over into my lane because she’s daydreaming about her past life when she didn’t drive a Chrysler Town & Country. I realize that if you have several children, minivans are a blessing. So precious. All I ask is that you stay in your lane, use your blinkers, and stop with the family stickers.

I will never walk into a mall pet store.I can’t even look into one if I’m passing by. Those animals do not look healthy and the image of their little faces stays with me too long and upsets me. Buying something that lives and breathes from the same place you bought your sneakers, saw a movie and had dinner does not make sense to me.

I will never watch Dumb & Dumber.I love Jim Carrey — adore him. But, for some reason, I really cannot stand that movie. I’ve seen bits and pieces of it, but never from start to finish. When it first came out on video, a bunch of my friends were watching it. I fell asleep and woke up at the part where Jim Carrey’s character is making “the most annoying sound in the world” — and that is not how anyone wants to be woken up. Plus, I just don’t find it as funny as everyone else does. So, I’m fine with never seeing it.

I will never drive by a dead animal and not feel sad.When I lived in Bethlehem, I saw this a lot more than usual. I hated it. The one and only time I’ve ever hit an animal while driving was when I was on Feura Bush Rd. and coming up over a small hill to see a bunny sitting there staring at me. It was too late. I cried so hard that every time I am on that road and pass that spot, I murmur, “Ohh, bunny.” I won’t even tell you how fast and hard my heart dropped when I passed a baby deer laying on the side of I-90 the other day. I almost called DOT to alert them of it, but they told me to stop calling (not really, but they probably wanted to) the last time.

I will never take real advice from someone I wouldn’t trade places in life with (even for just a day). I will listen to what they have to say, of course — but it most likely will be filtered heavily, if it doesn’t just sail right out the other ear. I imagine this will be most prominent when I have an Amanda Jr. and people who have bratty, misbehaved children try to thrust advice my way. La la laaaaaaa.

I will never go skydiving. It scares the stuff out of me. I’m sure it’s an amazing adrenaline rush and great for a mini-facelift and all, but…it’s just not natural.

I will never sell a single thing on eBay again.I procrastinate too much when shipping things out. Horrible, shame on me. I deserve a bad rating.

Wow, I could have written this list myself! Especially both parts about animals. Last night I was in Petsmart and saw some jerk walking around with his dog and trying to “correct” the dog by yanking on the leash but he was doing it SO hard he was actually lifting the dogs paws up off the ground. This was a BIG dog which means he had to be yanking pretty hard on the leash that was connected to the collar around the poor dogs neck! Seeing an animal treated like that just kills me. I really have more empathy for animals than I do for humans.

I’ll never go bungee jumping, skiing, surfing, scuba diving… and probably a few other “ings.” Some because of my arthritis, others just because – good grief, why?! One caveat – I suppose if I was on a plane that was about to crash, and there was a parachute, I might go skydiving – maybe.

I LOVE the picture you used for the mini van!!! I felt the same way about the ugly beasts until I rode in the backseat watching movies and sitting in an incredibly comfortable seat! I am still resistant to ever owning one but I have to say they are incredibly comfortable for long trips. Even reading about the deceased animals makes me choke up. When will they stop trying to cross the roads!! Just be happy where you are you crazy creatures!!!
I will however NEVER own those stickers!!!! They drive me nuts!!!!!!!!!
I’ll always LOVE Halloween and Dumb and Dumber!

PS: I LOVED Sue’s comment about thinking about going sky diving if the plane she is on is about crash! HAHA 🙂

I love our minivan and I’m not afraid to say it :-).Not all minivan drivers are bad ;-). I promise I do not daydream while driving as my current life is way more rewarding than my past life. I don’t like any stickers on cars (even hate my parking sticker!) so I’m with you on those family stickers!

I HATE those stupid family stickers! No one cares! They’re almost as annoying as those “baby on board” stickers. So you have a baby? Does that mean I’m supposed to treat your car any differently? And if you have a baby on board sticker, you should probably hang up your cell phone and/or quit smoking. I’ve seen cars with both the above mentioned. Bah Humbug

As far as the stickers are concerned… I hate the family stickers, but I LOVE the kitties! I wanted to get two kitty stickers to put on my jeep, but my boyfriend convinced me someone would find out we have adorable kitties & might come steal them.
🙂
He’s a clever boy.

I feel the same about all of those things except skydiving which I would love to try. Dumb & Dumber is well… dumb. Halloween is overrated and too expensive. I absolutely despise pet stores. A couple of years ago I was in the pet store at Colonie Center and was looking at the sweet, imprisoned puppies and one of them was biting at the latch to get out when his mouth got caught on the latch and he couldn’t get away. The sound that poor dog was making… ugh. It’s burned in my brain. He sounded like a baby screaming. I ran up to the front of the store to grab one of the associates (who I believe weren’t paying much attention to their living inventory) and when they finally got him out the poor thing was in a catatonic state. He was just shaking and staring straight ahead. It was actually kind of scary. I didn’t care for pet stores before that but now I can’t stand them.

1. I will never “check in” somewhere using a mobile phone app, thereby giving someone the “okay” to burglarize my home, because they know I’m not there.
2. I will never show my daughter the pictures of me in 80’s clothing. EVER.
3. I will never, ever, ever use the phrase “At the end of the day…”

I used to say I’d never own a minivan… until I needed something bigger for the kids + kid stuff. So I got an SUV. The problem? I don’t have running boards and my kids can’t climb into the darn thing! I started thinking about “possibly” being OK with the minivan the day my youngest tried to climb in and fell back, almost landing on her head. Thank goodness my husband was right behind her. Hopefully, the kids will be tall enough by the time the SUV dies so that I don’t really have to make that decision. Or pay extra for running boards…

I had to trade cars with my mother one weekend… she’s 60, no children or grandchildren at home yet she has a minivan. It did have a smooth ride and was very fuel efficient but I hated every second of it the set up inside, the look and the looks I got when I was driving/ getting in and out EEK!! AND THEN when I returned it she told me how her and my father were thinking about getting a new one… EEK again!!

I detest Minivans. I find the “family” stickers as annoying as people who eat with their mouth open.
I too, dislike pet stores or seeing roadkill. However, instead of thinking “why didn’t you stay off the road”, I think “humans suck”.
I LOOOOOOOVE Halloween! September thru December is my favorite time of the year. I will never like the month of March.
I don’t remember seeing Dumb and Dumber. Eh.
Would you take advice from Hitler? Nope, not me either. However, I might take advice from Janis Joplin. In other words, if I don’t respect you, I don’t respect your advice.
I would consider skydiving. Maybe.
I love to Ebay. I sell my children’s brand name clothing on Ebay and make a couple of thousand of dollars or more per year doing so. I also sell Silpada, Dooney & Bourke, Juicy Couture and more. It’s a lot of fun and rather addicting. And I send my stuff out on time, lol.

I have three kids. One takes Tae Kwon Do and one plays soccer every spring and fall, yet I still drive a Toyota Camry. I hate mini vans and those silly “family stickers” I don’t really need to know how many kids and pets that you have…nor do I care.

I, too, will never watch Dumb & Dumber. Like you, I’ve seen bits and pieces, but didn’t like what I saw so will not watch the movie in full.

Skydiving??? Why the hell would anyone want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane!? Although, if the plane is going down, someone will still have to push me out the door cuz there’s no way I’m jumping willingly! lmao

Hate minivans, but when you need to haul 5 teens and their skis, snowboards and other skiing crap to Jiminny or Stowe, they sure come in handy. Not too proud to rent from Avis, but I just try to wear my ski mask while driving back and forth.

I hate the family stickers!
I will NEVER own a mini van, ever.
I was walking through a mall 9 years ago and saw a puppy in the window display. He was chewing on the seam of the glass. I called my husband in tears at the thought of this poor puppy mill baby sitting in there, I just couldn’t bear the thought of leaving him there. It killed me to hand over $1,500.00 for a most likely inbred dog and support a company that has zero compassion for animals, but I simply had to rescue that baby and give him a good home. I still have that dog and he is a spoiled B.R.A.T. He is such a good boy and my family loves him to pieces. After that I won’t even walk to that end of the mall. My heart and wallet can’t handle it.

Agree with you on the pet store and since most of the dogs there come from puppy mills….just saying would rather adopt/rescue. i have a minivan and HATE IT! I actually make my husband drive it and I take the sportier car- although mini van is nice for longer trips- kids enjoy not having to sit next to each other 🙂

I hit a bunny in 1993 and it still makes me so sad…

Dumb and Dumber- DUMB! Will never sky dive bc I’m to chicken- and will most definitely never have the family stickers on the mini van I make my husband drive 🙂

Mini Vans: I’d like to see a soccermom/dad carting her kids around town on a tandem bike…6 kids = 7 seater (8 if another parent is in the picture)

The part of Feura Bush road you hit the bunny on, between Elsmere and Murray? Coming over that hill you never know whats waiting for you on the other side. Even though I’m not very religious, whenever I see a dead animal on the side of the road I make the sign of the cross for some reason.

Fred feels sad seeing dead animals, unless it is a baby deer, than I am happy because we live in an area overpopulated with deer and the carnage a full grown deer causes on human life in car collisions is horrific. We have way too many deer and they are a danger to motorists.

Would rather have a tooth extracted without novocaine than drive a mini-van. But, in my opinion only, if you can drive a vehicle like a civilized human being I say drive what you need to. The stickers are way too cutesy for me. I don’t go to malls (agoraphobia). No pet stores because they are too sad. Hit/grazed a skunk about 30 years ago, not enough to kill it, just enough for it to spray my little Datsun. It scampered off into a field and my friend and I spent an hour at the Hoffman’s car wash trying to get the smell off. Don’t fly so sky-diving is a non-issue. Would not bungee jump off anything. Do not like Jim Carrey or Angelina Jolie so any films with them I do not watch.

We rented a mini van while on vacation in Arizona once. It had doors on both sides thatwe opened while cruising some back roads and canyons. It was like having a picture window for the back seat passengers. Plus we camped some and took the back seat out to sit by the fire and half of slept in the back of the van. It really worked out well for us.

NEVER will I own a minivan, 3 kids and 2 dogs and it still isn’t appealing. I do agree that they are ugly!! I am amazing at fitting a weeks worth of stuff for 5 people to go to the beach in my little Sentra and coming back with more than I left with! My little Sentra has a major identity crisis. I have used it bring things home from Home Depot that are better suit to go in a truck and in the winter the snow tubes get tied to the roof and put in the trunk. If I have extra kids in my house, hubby is driving his car with some of the kids. Our 2 vehicles still won’t equal the fuel consumption of a minivan.

The family stickers make me want to vomit. Did anyone consider child predators that might follow you home or see the car sitting in the driveway due to the advertising you have 3 girls or whatever the case is? No thanks! Yes the child predator may still discover that info by cruising through the neighborhood or seeing everyone pile in the car in the shopping mall parking lot but I rather lower the chances by not advetising my family dynamic.

Halloween is not my thing. I don’t even like to take out my girls and if I break down and take them out trick or treating it is very short.

I will never intentionally run over a dead animal again. I will avoid it if at all possible.

I feel better after that little rant and managed to forget the source of my annoyance. 🙂

1.Agree 2. Disagree 3.Agree 4.Disagree 5.Agree 6.Disagree 7.Disagree 8.Indifferent, never used it, too nervous.
I will add to the list… I will never understand the obsession with men and the movie “The Princess Bride” nor will I ever understand why men (once again) think it’s okay to “Farmer blow” their nose on an indoor soccer field.

I ate my own words last year, however, when I purchased an SUV. Always made fun of the conformity and blandness of the minivan and what is symbolizes but I’m afraid the SUV isn’t too far away from that. Luckily, SUVs are still more sportier and younger looking than the dreaded minivan.

I love Halloween! In fact my husband suggested we get married on Halloween b/c it’s my favorite. Odd part is, we hardly ever have a Halloween party anymore since we celebrate our anniversary on that day.

Dead animals, totally!

Mall petstores -there’s a new one at Colonie Center that has exotics that do not come from “mills”. I got my baby hedgehog there two weeks ago.

I actually went car shopping for a small SUV and ended up with a wagon instead. 40+ mpg and still has lots of power and is fun to drive? Yes please! This is it: http://www.vw.com/en/models/jettasportwagen/gallery.html
Not too grocery-getter looking. And I like to keep cars for a long time so I liked the safety features for my some day potential kids.

ugh. was in my dads car not too long ago when i alerted him to a squirrel in the road and he said “we don’t break for squirrels.” luckily the little guy worked out not getting hit. it doesn’t happen often, but i had the “are we related?” feeling.

Well, Friday started like this: Happy *&%^$#@ Friday. It’s been a week, hasn’t it?
So I wasn’t sure if you were in a good mood or not. Then you posted the b&b story & ALL seemed good.
Then today: “Never say neverrrrr…”
I just thought it sounded negative. I can be very wrong because sometimes I read things in my head differently than how they are supposed to be read.
That’s all I meant.

I totally agree about the mall pet stores. They are truly vile places and the conditions that the puppies come from make me sick. I was in a certain mall pet store a few months ago and saw a little tiny baby guinea pig all alone in its cage. #1, it didn’t look old enough to be away from its mother, and #2, they are highly social animals that should not live alone. Even though it killed me to support their business, I bought her because I couldn’t stand to see her there. I got her home and she gave lice to my other guinea pigs — it was an absolute nightmare. Multiple vet visits, pricey medication, cage cleaning multiple times a week to get rid of the lice — horrible. It just goes to show what kinds of conditions animals live in at the pet store (and in the breeding mills). Definitely better to work with a shelter or rescue group if at all possible. That way your money is not funneled into puppy mills.

I swore I’d never drive a minivan. Then I needed to use a power wheelchair and sadly, the minivan is the ideal vehicle to transport the very heavy (250 pound) pile of metal and wheels that is attached to my butt. I have had Bonnie (my van) for nearly 10 years. There are no stickers on it, anywhere. Never will be. I promise.

Still laughing two hours after I first read how you feel about advice and “La la laaaaaaa”….me too. I seem to feel that advice is the reset button for my moral compass. Kind of like yeah that sounds right or no that a bunch of crap…except the word crap sounds different in my head.

I really want to go skydiving and bungee jumping someday even though I am very afraid of heights. I think it would be awesome! 😀

My dad went skydiving once and he said it was fun.

I walk into the pet stores at the mall all the time just to see what types of dog breeds they have. I feel bad for the animals though that haven’t gotten a home and my heart breaks for them. 🙁 And the fact that I wish we could get another dog but we already have two courtesy of my aunt’s dog who had puppies.

I know what *you* mean about the trading places. I just keep overthinking it.

But my constant overthinking is what might make me miss something that some fool who knows nothing about me or my life situation can clarify in an instant.

My life has so many people who like to go around saying I should be doing this, and I can’t be doing that, and I should be wearing this…Yet, they aren’t always practicing their own advice. Though all this makes them very annoying, I hesitate to say that they are wrong. If I have to hear “How hard it is to…” or “She should…” one more time, though…

It’s a delicate, interesting thing. I guess I am more apt to take the advice of someone whose life is in complete shambles, whether it’s their own doing or not, rather than someone who has one or two things “wrong” — ie.) bad marriage, bratty children, messy home.

@A … Hypocrisy seems to be becoming the latest trend . Unfortunately, it is one of the only things that I have zero patience for. That and driving slow in the passing lane. If you’re a hypocrite that doesn’t know when to “get over”, you and I are having some words.

@45 The new pet store is Everything Pets. They have a location in Rotterdam as well. They used to be in Burnt Hills but moved. They are a great pet store. The puppies and many of the other animals come from local breeders.

I am seconds away from buying a minivan and I said the same up until a year ago. The vehicle options are limited if you need more than one carseat, want a spot for someone other than a spouse, and need storage. I will not, however, put those stickers on the window.

I agree about the stores that sell live animals. If everyone stopped supporting them, the puppy mills will close.

Sooo…you feel sad driving by a dead animal on the road but you wear one without sadness? How do you reconcile that? At least the dead animal on the road lived free until a quick, painless death. That mink? Not so much.

So much time has passed since that mink was created, momto1. Continuing to wear something that was crafted in the 1930’s means that animal didn’t die in vain because the shawl got tossed out. Besides, back then — did they have the options to stay warm that we do now? No. So, would I buy a new fur? No.

Minivan story – brand new mom, brand new van. After giving myself three concussions from leaning into the van, 1/2 stepping up to put carseat into backseat from the sliding door, I ditched it for my Explorer. I am now on my 2nd Explorer and will NEVER drive a minivan again! I HATE those stickers in the rear window. Why do people do that? Do you think I truly care about the dynamics of your family? Nope!

Not Sonic! I settled on Gus. His nick-name driving home from the petstore was Sir PoopsAlot. They do make good pets for patient owners. They are very shy. They live about 7 years and can “get along” with any other pets because they have quills and aren’t easily munched or scratched. About hand size. And not much of a tail.